sedan chair

American  

noun

1. an enclosed vehicle for one person, borne on poles by two bearers and common during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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sedan chair British  

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: sedan.  a closed chair for one passenger, carried on poles by two bearers. It was commonly used in the 17th and 18th centuries

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Etymology

Origin of sedan chair

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

If they could bear him back to the team bus on a Sedan chair, they just might have.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2023

And yet—Can't you fancy a face in the frame Of the window,—some high-headed damsel or dame, Be-patched and be-powdered, just set by the stair, While they raise up the lid of that old Sedan chair?

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin

One night, in a Sedan chair, she was stopped with the news that it was not safe to go through Covent Garden.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

It was the day of the Sedan chair, when women waddled in hoops, like that of the lady mentioned in the Spectator, who appeared "as if she stood in a large drum."

From Haydn by Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert)

We must furbish it up, and dispatch it,—"With Care,"— To a Fine-Art Museum—that old Sedan chair!

From Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II by Dobson, Austin